livestock

Apart from the oxen who pulled the plough teamsand the pigs used as measure woodland, livestock is mentioned only infrequently in Great Domesday.

This is not, however, because the information was unavailable. Little Domesday Book and all the major satellitetexts record detailed information about the demesnelivestock, though not about the undoubtedly greater number of animals belonging to the peasantry.
Sheep, wethers, swine, goats, cows, calves, oxen, bulls, horses,
rounceys, mares, foals, mules and donkeys are recorded in substantial
numbers for the counties of Cambridge in circuit 3and for Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset in circuit 2.

Despite their deficiencies, these statistics from the satellite texts
are adequate enough to reveal that Domesday manors were well endowed
with livestock, particularly with sheep,
which exceeded the combined total of all other livestock by a very
considerable margin in all areas for which the figures can be gleaned.